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A Salon comment on Arthur Herman's book can be found here.
Nobody is arguing that McCarthy wasn't a loose cannon, or that he aimed at people he shouldn't have and missed people he should have gone after.
But the current popular interpretation of the "McCarthy Era" is, as I said, that there were no communists infiltrating the U.S., and that McCarthy was completely wrong about this. And that's not correct.